MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN 40-60ish
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I was 51 when diagnosed back in 5/08. Had lumpectomy 6/08 and also 7/08. Radiation and now on tamoxifen. I also quit smoking the day I started tamoxifen. So I have been smoke free since 8/05/08. I feel great. I just wish everyone in this forum didn't have to get to know each other because of breast cancer. Oh well, here we all are.
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Hi all - just turned 50! (ugh). Have 3 kids. No grandkids yet. Dx w/DCIS and little bits od IDC. Had a bilateral Mastectomy. I had lymphoma in my 20's. Had 50 rad treatments from chin to abdomen. This caused the BC. Been reading all your posts about rads - I had mantle rads for thr lymphoma - everything was affected by it. Getting rads on just your breast is a very localized treatment whereas mine was 25 treatments from chin to below boobies then 25 below boobies to abdomen. They did use lead blocks to help cover the heart and lungs but not all was able to be blocked. Hence - no lumpectomy possible for me. I know the fear of rads but the 1st time I got 20 years out of it (just celebrated last Oct - the joke was on me! Apparently the BC had already started by then!) So, good luck everyone!
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Okay I swear I am going to do it! Hey kleenex I know some people don't use their humor as a survival technique, but I do and you all make me laugh real hard about everyday and I believe that laughing will keep the cancer away! Love you ladies your the best have a good evening. I will tell you tomorrow how I did at the BS.
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HI all, I would love to be a fly on the wall to see the dr. face with a pink p. hair. how funny.
I have not had a pelvic exam in 5 years and I ask the dr. about it and he said since I had a hysterectomy I didn't need one but I still have the lips and a vagina, a clitoris, and urethra. you would think they would check those things out and make sure they are ok. I had a friend that died from cancer of the barthmalliow gland (i know the spelling is not right) but it is down there. Does everyone here get a pelvic if they have had a hysterectomy? Just really curious if I am getting good care. LOL
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I too think the humor keeps us sane. That being said....I am allergic to hair color so i can cross THAT idea off of my bucket list!! LOL
i would lov to see the look on a gyno's face.. thanks for the laughs
It is soooo hard for this chemo-brained, chemopaused, overworked grandma to keep up with you ladies...I couldn't belive how many pages have popped up since i was last here.
SOOOO Hello new ladies. Glad you have joined us.We are a happening crowd!
Have a great week ladies!
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Allergic to hair color? I'd be in a wig forever then - never, ever gray for me! (Except, "down there" although the pink is intriguing.)
I'm getting gray in my eyebrows now - who knew? I guess I can pluck 'em out since I'll be losing them all anyway.
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7. A nurse was on duty in the A&E when a young woman with purple hair styled into a punk rocker Mohawk, sporting a variety of tattoos, and wearing strange clothing, entered. It was quickly determined that the patient had acute appendicitis, so she was scheduled for an immediate operation. When she was completely disrobed on the operating table, the staff noticed that her pubic hair had been dyed green, and above it there was a tattoo that read, 'Keep off the grass.' Once the surgery was completed, the surgeon wrote a short note on the patient's dressing, which said 'Sorry, had to mow the lawn.'
Submitted by Staff Nurse RN Elaine Fogerty, KGH London .
Dr. Wouldn't submit his name!
This was in a long list of strange things that have happened to Drs. All the others had Drs names and hospital on them...this one only had the hospital!
jezza
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OMG.............I did not know they made hair dye for "down there" LOLOLOLOL. You should take a pink permanent marker and draw a bc ribbon right above. LOL
dragon..my mom in law still went to her gyno yearly after she had a hysterectomy. I am not sure what exactly they checked tho. But there are still thiings there that I would think may need checked.
Hugs, Mazy
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CoolBreeze - I get my hair colored at a salon and she colors my brows too.
I have a friend who always does something "special" for her pap. The preparation helped relieve her anxiety!
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Just a note on hair colour . . . I mean for the hair on your head
. I started going to a hair salon that uses an ammonia free product from Italy. Apparently it safe enough to drink . .. should anyone be inclined to do so. I just feel more comfortable using a natural product. If anyone is interested, the product is called Milk Shake. This is their website http://www.z-oneconcept.com/ . It's in Italian but I found if I hit the right icons, it does have some English. As for the pink hair dye . . hmmmm. Interesting. I was actually thinking of writing a note on my breast Wednesday morning just to give the OR team a little chuckle prior to cutting me. Maybe I'll just do a happy face. Or maybe a sad face is more appropriate.
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Somuch....Does she braid them?
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My eyebrows never came all the way back since chemo
and less leg hair. Can't sleep so I thought I would let you
people know........NO Colon cancer(it didnt come back)
Life is good. Thanks for the support and prayers.
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I had a close call to being very embarrassed recently when I went to Gynae Clinic. Had had my exam and was just heading out the door when I bumped into a junior doctor, (who is working under the Doc I saw and could have easy been assigned to check me).
The embarrassing bit is I have known him since he was in High School. Can you imagine having such a young aquaintance looking up there. Especially as he dates my best friends daughter.
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Rainenz, I'm pretty sure he would be more horrified than you! I had a neighbour refuse to do an ultrasound on my kidney. She said she didn't want to "know" more about me than she would as just neighbours. I'm pretty sure a woo who is more private than a kidney...
I had a hysterectomy years ago and no one wants to look up my number.....sigh.
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Hallelujah for your news, FOOTIE!!!!!
Now rest & take good care of yourself.
**It does indeed seem to me that all of the doctors/nurses on earth are awfully young these days. No doubt it's a sure sign that I belong in this age group. LOL.
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I am again haveing my morning belly laugh ladies and I so needed one today! Jeeza your story reminded me of years ago when I was an Orthopedic nurse I had a patient who was fighting with her husband in the car, she was leanining against the door, she fell out and he ran over her leg (thats their story!) anyway she had the leg in traction and I had to give her a bed bath. Well she was all of maybe 20 and tatoo's weren't as in fashion as they are now, but she had several, but my favorite was a yellow sign (like a danger traffic sign) just above her pubic bone with an arrow that pointed down and said "Caution slippery when wet" ohhhh I truly hope I haven't offended anyone but it really made all of us laugh that day, and I thought it quiet clever. I don't think I could have that tatoo now because it would be a lie! I will have to think of something to write though like a temporary tatoo to go with the pink!
I am off to the BS to find out the results of my biopsy's in a little while cross your fingers for me please.
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Sounds like you all know how to have fun at the yearly pelvic exam. Well, my GYN is older than I am. On one hand, I hope he doesn't retire so I have to go scouting for another; on the other hand he did miss my B/C in the office exam--the lump I felt about two weeks later. I think my next visit with him is going to be on the serious side.
In my care-free youth (that would be my 20's) I used to go to a University Medical Center, a big teaching facility. It was very common for the doc to show up in the exam room with a young intern or two. I had one appointment where I decided to switch from birth control pills to a diaphragm and sure enough the doctor had a young student with him (looking back, it could have been job-shadow day at the local high school) and he told me the student would "fit" me with the correct size. The anxious student confided that this was to be his first "fitting." With a deadpan look I told him, "Don't be nervous, it's my first time too."
I remember a muffled choking cough and then vacuum-like silence lasting several minutes. So much for GYN humor. I'll never work a small room again! That's just not my venue.
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Linda.
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You gals with your gyno stories! I don't have any funny ones at all but sure do enjoy yours.
As far as a tattoo above the nether region. For myself I'd suggest a covered bridge........the expression being 'as dry as a covered bridge'.
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At least you guys know if you're wet or dry! I haven't had the opportunity to find out otherwise....sigh.
(I think that's a topic for the Mojo thread tho...) 0 -
Or how about a desert scene?
The thought of pink dye made had me LOL. I think I might spring that one on my unsuspecting hubby. I'll tell him it's for breast cancer awareness month. Too funny! The speculum story made me cringe. Maybe that instrument should come with a warning from the Surgeon General...
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I have the perfect text for my pelvic area sign - this was on a shirt I had from Arizona many moons ago, but it's very apropos now:
"It's a Dry Heat."
They always said that about AZ and the lack of humidity, and I'm thinking that with my flashes combined with a decided lack of helpful moisture in my nether regions, that phrase sadly fits me now.
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A guy from work went to have a colonoscopy. The nurse came in to get him ready and it was a neighbour!
They both went bright red and she said "Don't say ANYTHING!"
He just laughed and thought bring on the anaesthetic....quick!
jezza
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Hey good for her ! and him!
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Too funny, I don't have any stories to share but it sure is great reading these, it feels so good to laugh, my hubby liked the "green grass", I would have to stick with Kleenex on A Dry Heat, even thought the rest of me is usually moist form the heat, wouldn't you know wet in all the wrong places! Go see my Surgeon tomorrow for follow up, want to ask him how long the tenderness under the arm will last, maybe it is from the Rads yet, surgery was 4 months ago, rads ended 3 weeks ago. Another beautiful day in Michigan, kind of like the nether region though, dry no rain for almost a month. Have a great evening, will take my Ambien and sleep well.
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Okay, this is the f......never ending pathology report. I get all the way into Manhattan this afternoon wait 2 hours to see the Dr. and what do I hear, "the final pathology isn't in yet" but the good news is that all the preliminary for both breasts is B9. I wish it was boringly B9 but both breasts have alot of LCIS and other junk, and it makes for a very messy pathology. I am hoping to do the carefull proceed with caution approach for as long as I can. If I ever require another biopsy I am afraid it will include a trip to New Orleans for a tummy tuck that turns into boobs. Thanks for the crossed fingers Sharon, you are talented!
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Linda....You deserve that drink now
Keep your SOH. lalalalalalalalalalala lala lalala
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When I went in to make another appt to see my cancer
Dr, I felt pretty good when I left. elimar I think we
are lucky to have support and caring people here.
God bless you for starting this line,
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Debbie- so glad you got good news. hope you are feeling better. ((((HUGS)))))
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Footsprintsangel, Glad the doctor had some good news for you & that you are feeling a little better now. I'm sending some healing energy your way.0
